Opera House 2010. I thought this one looked a bit different though.
Self Portrait
This is a place I visit every now and then near Frankston. It is an amazing bush site with extensive installation of large scale outdoor sculptures. I could have shown you how good they were but instead I vainly took a photo of my reflection. Visit; McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, 90 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin
I have added a photo of a great log sculpture to balance out the post.
A few more from the Alpine National Park
A few Black And Whites
Condom Wrapper on Lawn Outside Prime-Ministers House. 2010
Shadow on Kirrabilli Steps. 2010
Glass Facade Above Plane Tree Silhouette. 2010
Moreton Bay Fig Trunk. 2010
Flood Weather Sunset on Amess
Amess Street Toward City. I have not messed with this photo. This felt like the apocalypse had arived and the red glow of Satan was raining from the sky. Very eerie as it poured with rain from a glwoing amber sky.
Christmas in the Alpine National Park
This year was a total bypass of Christmas in the traditional sense; no tree, no presents, no turkey, no bon-bons (this probably the hardest loss...no bad jokes to memorise) and no staying at home. Instead camping on top of the world near the Howqua River south of Mount Buller. A week of no mobile reception, minimal fuss, and no christmas stress.
The Bluff. Looking North towards Mount Buller across burnt alpine plains.
The Bluff. Looking Sourth towards Eildon with stunted Alpine Snowgums.
Howqua River Tree Branch. River flooding breaks limbs off trees near the highwater-line.
The Bluff. View across to Mount Stirling.
Square.
Reflection in the Shop Window. April 2010. I'm in there somewhere.
Liquid Skies. December 2010. This summer it has of course rained a lot. This from my backyard!
Wide.
Storm Over Great Western Vineyards. February 2010.
Shark Shielded Pier. Brighton. April 2010
Wet Day on Winter Branches. Moyson. June 2010.
Succulents in Abondoned Goldfields. Rhymney. June 2010.
Sydney Love Affair Four: the final chapter.
About Sydney.
Dover Heights meets Pacific Ocean. I was so very lucky to have stayed with an amazing friend in an amazing place perched right on these cliffs. The roar of the ocean and the cool breeze was a nice change from inland Carlton!
Tangled Powerline Interchange. Part of my continued fascination with powerlines. This is great, so many jumps and crossovers on the one pole.
Worn Bluestone Steps. Bennelong. Good old durable stone, but multiply 200 years of foot traffic and you have an eternal physical record of those journeys before you.
Sydney Love Affair Three: Panoramas.
Calm on Bondi Beach before Iron-Man race. 2010
Arrival of Night on Sydney City. 2010
Panoramas dont really go to well on the web, and i'm yet to even print one of mine out, but it is nice to see a huge perspective in one image, and despite Sydney's poor weather in my week there, I still found some time to take ok photos.
Sydney Love Affair Two.
Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk.
I have never previously been able to find the place where you can just walk across the bridge for free: this time I found it and loved it. Besides the natural beautiful vantage of the Opera House and all that alluring touristy Sydney stuff, i finally had a chance to look at the immensity of the engineering on the bridge and the complexity of all the spans and rivets holding it together. For me, great stuff!
Sydney Love Affair One.
Architectural Sydney.
Brewers Store. The Rocks. Circa 1800.
British Medical Association Building. 1930.
Sirius Public Housing Apartments. The Rocks. Circa 1960's. My favourite Sydney building and a fantastic example of brutalist Architecture from the period.
Melbourne Rooftop Skyline
Melbourne Skyline Circa 2007, from Rooftop Bar. There are some crazy distortions in this image and that is to be expected for such a wide format. I have tried to maintain vertical perspective and warp the horizontal. This is a huge image file on my computer, measuring 2.8 meters wide, made up from 9 portrait images. Was a fairly flat image, there are now three image layers with different blend modes in each, adjusted curves for better contrast in the midtones, put on a low and high overlay gradient, black and white conversion, adjusted levels and finished with a red/orange colour filter over the top to warm the highlights a bit. I usually dont write about how I choose to manipulate my images to get to the end product, but suffice to say most get around an hour of editing to boost it from a flat RAW image file into something quite different, and abstracted from the original.
Marysville Fire Series
Bark Peels From Burnt Messmate, 2010.
Mountain Ash Avenue, 2010.
Burnt Trunks Washed in Winter Snowmelt, 2010
The scale of the decimated forests is inconcievable until you drive and walk through it, and the completeness of the death of the tall trees is stunning. But the forest now acts in other ways as the tall trees break open in the weather, decay, and pass their space onto the saplings growing below. I chanced upon this road when all the rest were blocked for ski season. This was the road that revealed the true extents of the fires path, and of a new way of looking at the landscape here.
Victorian Winter Coastline
Cape Conran, 2010. Managed to pull up to the campsite at just that right time where evening light gets all warm and soft and beautiful, and the remnants of a mildly wintery day washes across the sky.
Point Hicks, Thurra Camp, 2010. Heavily desaturated to amplify the contrast within the rocks and the sky, the dark rich water of a small river swoops out to meet the sea.
Tectonic Activity
Ben Boyd National Park, NSW, August 2010 Amazing geomorphic rock structures all along the Vic/NSW coastline.
Three Organic, Three Archi-textural
Random collection. A focus on my observed details photography. A sampling of fleeting moments recorded and documented through my lens; just one of an infinite number of possible views. These were my moments on the continuum of change which I chose to freeze and record the event, my version of seeing site.
From Top;
Strangler Fig reches its aerial roots to the ground. Brisbane Parkland. 2009
Skyscraper pushes high toward storm clouds. Brisbane 2009.
Red hydrant taps on grey pre-cast concrete wall. Melbourne Museum. 2010
Ancient seabed cracks on top of mountain. Glass House Mountains, Queensland. 2009
Shadows before the leaves started to grow. Melbourne Museum. 2010
Veiny leaf reaches for morning light. Gold Coast. 2009
Winter Beach 6AM
Flock of Cockatoo's
I once proposed this flock of birds represented the mood I was in.... What sort of mood does it take on for you? I am always trying to capture a few elements of the 'living', as most of my photographs focus on the static around me. It is such a dynamic sight to see the spatial rearrangement within the flock and the amalgamous entity that the flock takes on. Unfortunately the combined sound of these Sulphur Crested Cockys is about the most gratingly horrid aural experience known to man. Enjoy the photo here without the need to suffer the sound.
Beautiful Sand....
The more photographs i take the more I am becoming confident of my style, or at least my interests. Sand and powerlines rate up there pretty high....! This epic landscape (though its hard to guage the landscape as such, as i havent provided it...this abstractive view asks you to visualise the rest) spanned around 50 acres, or maybe 10 MCG's sized expanse. It was a collossal coastal dune system. But the details within...I have never been so amazed at the patterns within these shifting sands, and the record of life left from the night before in the tiny tracks made by beatles and birds scampering across.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)